This long-winded story begins as most stories do, with a mother and a child. Where? Berlin. When? 1893. A woman walked into the pension room at the exact moment the German officer she spent her ...

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Sophomore computer science major Aryan Mudgal and sophomore management student Chirag Ohri observed in the Spring 2024 semester that the campus was not cleaned during the weekends. There was trash, ...

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The Spectrum asks UB students about their favorite sex positions, where the best places to have sex outside of dorms are, and more.

Officers from University Police (UPD), Amherst Police and the New York State Police negotiated with a driver “in distress” for four and a half hours at the intersection of Chestnut Ridge and Sweet ...

For decades, marginalized communities in Buffalo have experienced food apartheid, which Karen Washington, a food justice advocate, describes as the “root causes of inequity in our food system based on ...

Grant Ashley is the editor in chief of The Spectrum. He's also reported for NPR, WBFO, WIVB and The Buffalo News. He enjoys taking long bike rides, baking with his parents’ ingredients and recreating ...

There’s a quote often misattributed to Charles Darwin, the famed evolutionary biologist, that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it ...

Approximately 400 UB resident physicians, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), went on a four-day strike at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) last week to ...